The source (I mean game) can be decompiled easily which will give you full access to the entire source code. The point is this shouldn't have to be done in order to keep this game alive. I'm fairly sure there's plenty of people that are modding the game that would be more than willing to band together to keep it going.

The ball really lies in Redigits court at this point. If he doesn't do something it's unlikely a few people will follow him into his next game when he ditches his first game before it's even out a year to "spend time with his family". I have a job. I have a family. I still find plenty of time to pick up coding projects on the side and do many other things.

I for one won't be spending my money on another game by this man. I gave him my money many times from this game alone because I felt it was a worthy investment. I spent some of my free time keeping a mod alive in to draw more people into the game.

The thanks I, and many other more skillful people, as well as many many people playing and enjoying this game, have gotten is a giant slap in the face as far as I'm concerned.

The only way I won't feel ripped off is if he releases the source code of this project or he passes the game off onto someone who won't bow out when it's going to take more than 2 hours a day to maintain.

Also, it's not even about the not getting my moneys worth from this game. I did, more than once over. The point is how it has been ditched for no respectable reason.

He's not going to develop this game anymore to spend time with his family, but don't worry he has another game in the works? Whatever.

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My thoughts exactly!!! Right now I'm just crossing my fingers for the negotiations with gaslamp games to work out....

I understand that he would want to spend time with his family, but don't we all? The ordinary person still works. Spends half of their time not sleeping doing work somewhere far away from home.

Considering that Redigit most likely programs at home and can do so, and that he was never restrained to any stiff hours away from home, I don't see the problem. There are certainly times that people want to be away from their children, no one wants to deal with them at all times... It's just another excuse to move on to another project because he got tired of his old one. (The idea of a big excuse from him to move on to another project isn't old, either)

There isn't anything wrong with asking someone to do something they don't want to do, and if Redigit doesn't want to program it, you should still ask. I want updates. Not even big ones, either. Just small little updates here and there that simply add variety to the game.

I'm sorry... I can't completely respect this. (I feel) The way this is presented it feels like wanting to focus on family now is being used as a deflector as well as a cloak to the words "I got my money; I quit." I mean, really? Dropping Terraria because of family... Here's some news for everyone. People work AND spend time with their family. Know what that's called? Your average family. It's not hard to dedicate a few hours a day to something like this and spend the rest of it with the family. I don't understand why that isn't being considered as an option at all.

There are people who work 7-9 hours a day and still support spend times with their families and focus on their hobbies. Don't act like Terraria is something that took up tons of your time. You barely put any effort into it. You're lazy. You don't see owners of companies that make it big just sit back and watch everything happen once money starts raking in. They get involved with their company, making more of the goods or content that its customers love. This is just wrong of you to do.

The thing I have a tough time wrapping my head around is the fact that most families have children AND continue working. So I'm not really seeing this as a good excuse to quit updating Terraria completely. It's completely acceptable to not spend every waking hour on it, but you don't need to stop completely to spend time with your family. It's even less of an excuse to abandon the game completely instead of selling the rights to a reliable team such as Gaslamp Games, who have expressed a serious interest in supporting it.

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I have to say, I'm sure there's tons of new fathers out there who would LOVE nothing more than to be able to up and quit their job to be able to spend more time with their new baby. However, most people don't have the means to do such a thing. Also, I'm sure there's tons of new fathers out there who would LOVE to have a job that would allow them to work from home and set their own hours (Heck, anyone would love that sort of job! Even people with no kids!).

I'm a firm believer in the whole "family comes first" thing, but those of us who made it possible for him to even consider quitting to "spend more time with his family" by forking over money for this game (however small an amount it was, which really doesn't matter in the end, because I could have spent my $10 on something else) shouldn't just be tossed aside like yesterday's trash. Family can still come first at the same time as making sure you fulfill the promises you made to your paying customers. Especially when it would be so easy to just work from home, even just a couple hours a day, five days a week. If only I could be so lucky as to have a job like that!!

after 1m sales you giving up? Terraria had so much more to offer it was just about to become a cult a classic leave a legacy and now you abandon it? At the beginning of it's time? And not even considering for a full priced expansion or even terraria 2?
I hope minecraft don't follows the same direction and I wish you to treat with more love your next (digital) child.

What we have here are people who felt they were entitled to more than what they got, when in fact they got 100% of what their purchase agreement entitled them to. They aren't happy, and I respect their right to complain, but the reality is that they got what they paid for (and then some free content on top of that).

The future of Terraria has been highly debated as of late, not just with the community, but for us as well. The last year has been a crazy ride! When I started on this game, I just had a few ideas of what I thought would make a fun game. I had no idea that it would receive so much attention. I want to thank all of you for supporting us and making this game's success possible.

After a lot of internal debate, we have decided that it is time to move on. My wife and I are due to have another boy soon, and I want to spend some time getting to know him. I also want to spend the time recharging and bettering myself as both a programmer and game designer. I have learned a lot from working on Terraria and plan on using what I've learned, building upon it, and moving forward with another, even better project. However, we are still planning at least one more bug fix for Terraria.

For those that haven't already heard, Finn "Tiy" Brice has moved on to form Chucklefish and is heavily at work on an exciting new game called “Starbound”. It's looking to be a lot of fun, so make sure to check it out if you haven't already!

Thanks again for all your support, and I am very much looking forward to providing you with something much better than Terraria in the future!

its fine and all to spend time with your new son/daughter. however just abandoning this much loved game sure does make most of us sad and some of us angry in that you made promises. so its your decision but this greatly saddens me. thanks none the less for putting out an awesome game just don't expect people to blindly buy your next game since its unlikely that serious bugs/issues will be addressed.

its fine and all to spend time with your new son/daughter. however just abandoning this much loved game sure does make most of us sad and some of us angry in that you made promises. so its your decision but this greatly saddens me. thanks none the less for putting out an awesome game just don't expect people to blindly buy your next game since its unlikely that serious bugs/issues will NOT be addressed.

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The clarification post indicates that there will be at least one bug fix.

there was though, there are more upset people on this forum than people that don't think its a big deal. He is gonna take a hit to his fan base, alot of people wont be giving him money anymore for his empty promises and less than a year support. You can argue why this is wrong til your blue in the face, but its the truth.

But that doesn't mean you HAVE to follow that process, however, I believe somewhere one of the devs stated that they considered the game "no longer in beta" I believe that was at the release of 1.0.6, I'll see if I can find it.

What we have here are people who felt they were entitled to more than what they got, when in fact they got 100% of what their purchase agreement entitled them to. They aren't happy, and I respect their right to complain, but the reality is that they got what they paid for (and then some free content on top of that).